It’s the XLBS Show………Happy Sunday CoGs! I remember reading about ‘The Amber Room’ a long time ago. A mystery for certain. I will always love the ‘Bond’ movies. All of them and for what they are. I bought about 30 telescoping mini antennas for a game that has flying in it that I’ve been working on for about six years now. I just grabbed them from eBay. Bought in bulk and paid very little. I tired the ‘Predatory Stare’ while looking at my wife just now……she told me to “Stop it, or I’ll knock your eyes into next Week!” ***So… Read more »

Happy Sunday!!!

@warzan I woukd just play this http://irregularwars.blogspot.com/p/palaeo-diet.html. Written by a nice Australian chap living in the Crumlin area

“We need Octopussies” – that was Rojer Moore, not Sean Connery mate.
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It’s not an area of war gaming I’m familiar with, but I’d echo Gerry’s suggestion of looking into aircraft rules (and add in spaceship rules to cover more bases); I may be mistaken, but from a Physics standpoint, I believe that theres little to no difference between the mechanics of flying and the mechanics of swimming, so anything that satisfactorily models air combat should also satisfactorily cover submaritime combat.

Happy Sunday to all CoGs.

Little Wars TV had an episode where they gamed WWI aerial combat. They had the aircraft on telescopic flight stands, and if I remember correctly, there was a mini tutorial on how they put them together.

I’ve always thought Bernard Cornwell’s Stonehenge novel had some great ideas for Prehistoric gaming.

Have a google of Otzi the Iceman.

For underwater gaming after gaining entry to the wreck how about a underwater dungeon delve. Parts of the wreck could have air pockets with risk of flooding. Thinking Posiedon Adenture here.

Is it Dropfleet Commander that has height / level mechanics ?

@warzan The Stingray rules came from Pete Merritt and possibly John Treadaway for Salute but that would have been at least 20 years ago but they used to have an archive of rule pdfs. There was a Tirpitz v X-craft game that Salute did which was “Hunt for the lonely queen”? which had an article in Wargames Illustrated which detailed how the game worked and also about the terrain which should be in both archives.HLBS used to make a range of submersibles and sharks can’t recall if they had divers as well. Scheltrum used to make Victorian style Captain Nemo… Read more »

@warzan might I suggest episodes 4 & 5 of Black Lagoon? Mercenaries in the mid-90’s who in these two episodes are tasked with salvaging a U-boat sunk in the South China Sea. Queue hilarity as a shipload of Neo-Nazis turn up. Bonus points for resident gunslinger”Two-Hands” Revy getting to mess around with an assault rifle modded for underwater firing….

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80061249?trackId=155573558

Happy Sunday all, some great golden buttons on show this week ?

Lloyd: “If its big and hairy they think I want to climb up inside that”
The real reason Gerry won’t go in to the studio these days.

A prehistoric tribal game screams KD:M to me. Its not about the individual its about the settlement/tribe. Add that behind the Rangers of Shadow Deep game play and you could have something interesting.

That a prediction of 2023?

Morning all, @warzan I vaguely remember there was a Waddington style board games with minature divers done for the underwater battle in Thunderbaĺl, think it included the sub. Found this https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8005/james-bond-007-thunderball Which has standees from a quick look, but I remember advert which had figures. I did have some tou soldier Thunderball divers in the traditional black and orange from the movie. Lloydy is correct about the bases for the telescopes or segments. A friend Amos did a WW1 game using brass rods, which he painstakingly made using 2 guages of rod, to make lego style rods. But had to… Read more »

Barbarians is set in AD 7 and the Teutoberg Forest incident. It’s well worth a watch.

I loved the joy on Bens face when Warren sayed no code busters This week.

They are itchy allegedly I’ve heard? Lol

What about these one’s guy’s.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/5X-Replacement-49cm-19-3-6-Sections-Telescopic-Antenna-Aerial-for-Radio-TV/313287537747?hash=item48f1647453:g:6fEAAOSw~hNfo7FB&redirect=mobile

@warzan I would highly recommend getting a copy of The Origins of War by Arther Ferrill https://www.amazon.co.uk/Origins-War-Alexander-Revised-History/dp/0813333024 I got my copy on EBay for a few quid, it’s well worth a read especially the prehistoric sections. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124382891903 By the Neolithic period farming was taking hold and settlements were springing up everywhere. I would look up Carn Brae near Redruth as there is evidence of an battle around the enclosure. Over 700 flint arrowheads were found scattered at the site. Despite nineteenth-century destruction (work to level and widen the entrance track), there was a concentration of arrow heads around a probable… Read more »

Have you not seen some of the odditys roming around most town centre’s Friday night’s the stone age is alive and kicking?

Lol
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=captain+caveman&ru=%2fvideos%2fsearch%3fq%3dcaptain%2bcaveman%26qpvt%3dcaptain%2bcaveman%26FORM%3dVDRE&qpvt=captain+caveman&view=detail&mid=9CC6FE79816F73E811399CC6FE79816F73E81139&&FORM=VDRVRV

Happy Sunday all.